A Modest Proposal To Improve Governance, Hindustan Times

The Harvard economist Lant Pritchett has called India a ‘flailing state’. The signs are all around us; in the decaying government schools and the declining public hospitals, in the apathy and incompetence of the police, in the shocking state of our roads and transport systems, in the fouling of our air and water. There is also abundant statistical proof of how Central and State Governments are failing citizens; in the Annual State of Education Reports issued by Pratham, for example, or in the...